"Condensed hand brew, how do you make it taste better?"Yes, you read that right! Yesterday at 5pm, Front Street was stunned when he heard the question of "staple food with staple food" in the store, because such a question is really unheard of. After some careful research on the front street, I found out that this customer friend wanted to drink a cup of delicious "red-eye coffee".However, as you can see, the production of Pour over(V60) espresso and red-eye coffee is extraordinary, so making it delicious is not a simple matter. Moreover, Front Street does not recommend that you try it easily, because the purpose of making red-eye coffee is not to taste as delicious as a latte, but to ingest more refreshing effects.Front Street has shared before that the most widely circulated "birth theory" of red-eye coffee is this: red-eye coffee originated in the United States, and the reason for its birth came from the flight with the same name - the red-eye flight. The sailing time of this flight is very unique, setting sail late at night and arriving at the destination early the next morning.But because the flight time is usually less than 8 hours, many times after arriving at the destination, passengers on the plane will "happy" their eyes are red and bloodshot due to being forced to wake up. So naturally, the person who "created" this eye became known as the "red-eye flight."In addition to passengers, flights are naturally indispensable for flight crews who escort the journey. But for work reasons, they need to stay awake when they should be sleeping, so in order to stay awake throughout the entire process, consuming coffee is a very good choice.As the frequency of coffee intake increases, the caffeine provided by a single serving of coffee can no longer resist the onset of drowsiness. So, an ingenious person came up with the idea of merging espresso and drip coffee to get a higher caffeine intake. Then, the practice of mixing espresso with drip coffee was born.(Then why not drink multiple shots of espresso...)。Since this cup of coffee was born because of the red-eye flight, it was named red-eye coffee. In addition to red-eye coffee, there are also black-eye coffee and dead-eye coffee... Because they add more coffee, they will have a higher coffee concentration than red-eye coffee, but whether it tastes good or not is another matter~How to make red eye coffee?In the past, the red-eye coffee recipe was a 30ml single-serve espresso with 120ml drip coffee, and the cup size was 150ml. But because today’s extraction methods have changed, the concentration of espresso extracted is twice that of before. Therefore, if you make it according to the previous dosage, this cup of coffee will become a high-concentration black-eyed coffee.(Black Eyed Coffee is made from 60ml double espresso and 120ml drip coffee)。Therefore, Front Street recommends that you adjust the amount of espresso when making it.(halved). Of course, Front Street alsoNot recommendedIt’s easy for everyone to try, especially for those who are not very intolerant to caffeine.(But in fact, the caffeine concentration is almost the same as the current one-part and two-part concentrate)In addition to being particular about portion size, we also need to choose the right two coffee beans to use. After all, what we pay attention to is not only the refreshing effect, but now that there are more choices, taste is equally important.But the selection of coffee beans is not complicated, but very simple. We only need to use two coffee beans with similar roasting degrees to make drip filter and espresso.Since the roasting degree is similar, the taste and tonality of the coffee are quite different. The blended taste will be more consistent, and there will be no sense of dissonance when drinking it. Not necessarily delicious, but at least it won't taste bad.
Take the production of Front Street as an example, because the Italian beans used by Front Street here are the Front Street Strawberry Candy and Gesha Blend in the bean list. It is a medium-roasted coffee bean with a white floral aroma, strawberry, and berry. The taste is mainly sour and sweet. Therefore, the beans paired with it are naturally a medium-roasted coffee bean with a mainly sour and sweet taste. The beans chosen by Front Street here are the Front Street Esai Oiran in the bean list, which has the flavor of citrus, apricot, and strawberry. The extraction parameters are as follows:Espresso:20g powder, 30s extraction time, 40ml coffee liquid.Hand brewed coffee:15g powder, 1:15 powder to water ratio, ek43 10-scale grinding, 75% sieving rate of No. 20 mesh, fine sugar grinding, 92°C water temperature, V60 filter cup, three-stage brewing, extraction time 2 minutes.After the two coffees are made, we first pour 20ml of espresso into the prepared cup.Then pour 120ml of Pour over(V60) coffee.Finally stir evenly and you can start tasting!To be fair, it’s okay! The taste of this cup of red-eye coffee is just as expected from Front Street, but it is just a little stronger than the regular Pour over(V60) coffee. For Front Street, who needs early concentration all year round, this flavor concentration is still acceptable. The flavor performance was beyond Front Street’s expectations. I was pleasantly surprised. The flavor combination of the two beans was perfect, without any abruptness! You can clearly taste the flavors of white flowers, strawberries, citrus, and apricots. The overall taste is balanced between sweet and sour, with a mellow taste and an aftertaste of oolong tea~In addition to the examples listed above, you can also try other blending solutions on your own. But again, friends who can't drink strong coffee are best not to try it easily, because it is still difficult to enter. Although it can also be diluted by adding water, there is no need to torture yourself like this. Wouldn’t it be better to split it up and enjoy it separately?
You can now buy the above coffee beans online at the Taobao store “FrontStreet Coffee” (前街咖啡). FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou, China, and its Guangzhou retail shop sells coffee beans only. The shop carries dozens of coffee beans from different origins around the world, including carefully selected single-origin beans for V60 pour-over and espresso. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers.
The FrontStreet 2013 Yunnan coffee beans sold in the store come from the Typica variety grown at FrontStreet Coffee’s own plantation in Yunnan. The name comes from the year the brand and the plantation were founded. You can buy these beans from China’s Yunnan origin at the Guangzhou shop and at FrontStreet’s Taobao store.
FrontStreet coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days and deliver consistently excellent quality and great value. Orders placed before 17:00 are shipped the same day, and most areas within Guangdong Province receive them the next day.
FrontStreet Coffee Taobao store: https://qianjiecoffee.taobao.com
Or search for “前街咖啡” (FrontStreet Coffee) on Taobao
Important Notice: FrontStreet Coffee has moved to a new address: 315, Donghua East Road, Guangzhou (coffee beans only)
Tel: 020 38364473
